Horses with the classic or true roan pattern may be any base color which is intermingled with unpigmented white hairs on the body. Except for white markings under the control of other genes, the head, mane, tail, and lower legs are dark. [2] Roan is a simple dominant trait symbolized by the Rn allele. [3] More @Wikipedia
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